The Magic Flute: Masonic Opera

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Seite 16Becoming one of the champions of the Enlightenment, having reached one of the
highest degrees in Freemasonry as general secretary of the Grand Lodge of
Austria, he was one of its leaders during the difficult hours of the "reform"
imposed ...

Seite 61suit was the extremely large number of ecclesiastics, often of high rank, who
frequented the lodges (Colloredo himself, archbishop of Salzburg and "patron" of
Mozart, was perhaps among them*). To see Freemasons attending religious ...

Seite 70As we have seen, Mozart appears to have attended Born's lodge almost as
assiduously as his own. Nevertheless, that reason does not suffice to underwrite
the claim, made later by Seyfried on the basis of Giesecke's tales, that the latter lodge ...